Post-Soviet “Political”?: “Social” and “Political” in the Work of Russian Socially Oriented CSOs

Meri Susanna Kulmala

Post-Soviet “Political”? “Social” and “Political” in the Work of Russian Socially Oriented CSOs

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Abstract

This article seeks to understand the role
of civil society organizations (CSO) in contemporary
Russian society. Rather than looking narrowly at
advocacy groups, the investigation focuses on lessstudied
socially oriented organizations, including more
recently established CSOs as well as the so-called
Soviet-type voluntary organizations, which have been
almost completely neglected by Western scholarship
on Russian civil society. In contrast to the argument
that Russia’s socially oriented CSOs are apolitical – an
argument often made in Western scholarship on Russian
civil society – the research found that organizations from
both categories – the old Soviet-type and the more recent
post-Soviet – were engaged in both political advocacy
work and service provision, although they were engaged
in political and social action to varying extents.

Original language	English
Journal	Demokratizatsiya
Volume	24
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	199-224
Number of pages	25
ISSN	1074-6846
Publication status	Published - 2016
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

5141 Sociology
517 Political science

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01/01/2016 → 31/12/2018
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project

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A child's right to a family: deinstitutionalization of child welfare in Putin's Russia

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